Global Food Security and Supply E-Book

Wayne Martindale

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 301

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014

Beschreibung

With the global population projected to reach 9 billion by the year 2050, the need for nations to secure food supplies for their populations has never been more pressing. Finding better supply chain solutions is an essential part of achieving a secure and sustainable diet for a rapidly increasing population. We are now in a position, through methods including life cycle assessment (LCA), carbon footprinting and other tools, to accurately measure and assess our use – or misuse – of natural resources, including food. The impact of new technologies and management systems can therefore improve efficiencies and find new ways to reduce waste.

Global Food Security and Supply provides robust, succinct information for people who want to understand how the global food system works. The book demonstrates the specific tools available for understanding how food supply works, addresses the challenges facing a secure and safe global food supply, and helps readers to appreciate how these challenges might be overcome.

This book is a concise and accessible text that focuses on recent data and findings from a range of international collaborations and studies.  The author provides both a snapshot of global food supply and security today, and a projection of where these issues may lead us in the future. This book will therefore be of particular interest to food policy leaders, commercial managers in the food industry, and researchers and students seeking a better understanding of a rapidly evolving topic.

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Cover image: “World Map with Spices” © iStock/ susoy

For my wife, Deborah, and my daughters, Minnie, Tula, and Timéa, who will continue to make the world a better place.

About the Author

Dr Wayne Martindale is a Research Director for MPC Research and an Editor for ‘Science Into’, an on-line magazine for food industry innovations. He is a leading figure in the food and agricultural industry for sustainability issues. Dr. Martindale has been an Organisation for Economic Co–operation and Development (OECD) Cooperative Research Programme Fellow, British Grassland Society Fellow for sustainable agricultural systems, and a Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) McMaster fellow for sustainable food processing. Starting his scientific career as a biochemist at the University of Sheffield he then applied research with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Levington Agriculture Ltd where he established the first independent fertiliser industry technical information service for chartered agronomists. He has developed undergraduate and postgraduate programmes across the agri-food supply chain at the universities of Leeds, Sheffield, and Sunderland in the United Kingdom. He is also a research fellow in Corporate Social Responsibility at Sheffield Business School.

See www.waynemartindale.com for his current research and updates.